Fish with Vegetables

This is my mom’s recipe, she used to cook pretty much any fish we had like this. Original recipe calls for parsley roots, but they are hard to come around here, so I used parsnips instead and it worked good.

Important moment: the fish should be with bones (so pieces won’t fall apart). Actually this recipe is very good for bony fish: if you let fish simmer with vegetables for longer – smaller bones will dissolve while cooking.

Ingredients:

2lb of fish with bones, I took salmon steaks

2 onions

3 tomatoes

4-5 carrots

2 parsnips (or parsley roots or both of these)

5 bay leaves

15 whole black peppercorns

1/2 cup of water

All purpose flour for dusting

Salt to taste

3 tablespoons of oil

How to prepare, step-by-step:

Pour flour into a bowl. Slice fish into portion pieces (for stakes it is good to slice each in half along the spine bone) and dust each fish piece from each side with flour: Fish with Vegetables Recipe: Step 2

Fry all fish pieces from all sides until colored, then move fish pieces to a plate: Fish with Vegetables Recipe: Step 4

Reduce heat to moderate, peel onions, slice them into half circles and add them to the frying pan. Fry onions until colored, stir from time to time: Fish with Vegetables Recipe: Step 5

Peel root vegetables (carrots, parsnips and parsley root if you have some), slice them into stripes, add them to the frying pan; mix and continue cooking vegetables together: Fish with Vegetables Recipe: Step 6

Blanch tomatoes, slice them and add to the pan: Fish with Vegetables Recipe: Step 7

Add salt to taste, bay leaves and black peppercorns, mix and continue cooking all vegetables together over light simmer for about 10 mins: Fish with Vegetables Recipe: Step 8

Remove about half of the vegetable sauce from the pan: Fish with Vegetables Recipe: Step 9

Move fried pieces of fish back in into single layer: Fish with Vegetables Recipe: Step 10